Anthropometry is an important part of a nutritional assessment, but for many elderly persons who are not ambulatory, collecting standard anthropometric data is difficult. This report provides a methodology for collecting "recumbent" anthropometric data that removes the effect of an elderly person's mobility status on a nutritional assessment. Techniques and sex-specific reference data are presented for recumbent measures of midarm and calf circumference, and triceps and subscapular skinfolds plus stature and weight for elderly persons 65 to 90 years of age.